Recently I joined a project that was using a Sql Server Database Project to manage their DB scheme and so far it is pretty cool. This project type like others has a deploy/publish option which will allow you to publish your changes to a target database. And like other project types this is...

I have a need to update our build version number in our various *AssemblyInfo.cs files each and every time we do a release build of our products. I wanted to do this as a build step on our build server and I thought that Powershell would be the best way to do this given the fact we are use pSake as our...

Acknowledgment: This is meant to be the Windows equivalent of Anders Janmyr ’s excellent post on the subject of finding stuff with Git. Essentially, I’m translating some of Anders’ examples to Powershell and providing explanations for things that many Windows devs might not be familiar...

If you are using PSake to build .net projects and your project has a silverlight project in it you may get the following error. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\Silverlight\v4.0\Microsoft.Silverlight.Common.targets(104,9): error : The Silverlight 4 SDK is not installed. [C:\Development\Source...

Recently I decided I would kill two birds with one stone, I figured I would learn a bit of Powershell and setup some build scripts for our project. I have been wanting to play around with Powershell for the longest time but could never really either find the time or the reason to play with it. ...